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[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I’ve got this under control, but it required my life to get really fucked up.[/quote]

Soooo ehem… any chance you’re no longer mad at a certain someone? Maybe even feeing a bit of gratitude?[/quote]

Unlikely.

On the bright side, I have for sale a slightly used platinum engagement ring, lady’s size 7, 4.5 carret center stone (round but squarish – think it’s called “pillow”), VVS1, F color (slight blue in my eyes), with two 3/4 triangle shaped side stones, same quality.

Looks like this:

Serious enquiries only.[/quote]
Hold on I keep thinking more about this, how the fuck much did that cost? Is that not like a quarter of a million dollar ring?[/quote]

$44,895 plus tax. I do have retail appraisals for a lot more (one because insurance demanded it), but nothing like what you are talking.[/quote]
Huh. I thought a diamond of that size and quality was like insanely expensive. Isn’t 4.5 carats like practically half an inch across?[/quote]

More like a 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch, I think. It gets bigger in all directions, not just across.

I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Forget that, show us pics of said feemale you deemed worthy of this rock??

Also what happened to the girl from the work trip

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I’ve got this under control, but it required my life to get really fucked up.[/quote]

Soooo ehem… any chance you’re no longer mad at a certain someone? Maybe even feeing a bit of gratitude?[/quote]

Unlikely.

On the bright side, I have for sale a slightly used platinum engagement ring, lady’s size 7, 4.5 carret center stone (round but squarish – think it’s called “pillow”), VVS1, F color (slight blue in my eyes), with two 3/4 triangle shaped side stones, same quality.

Looks like this:

Serious enquiries only.[/quote]

Ah, Ruff, I’m sorry to hear that.

Hope you’re doing ok with the whole thing.[/quote]

I can’t decide if the life of Ruff is tragic, hilarious, or enviable. Probably some of each.

Stay away from the crazy bitches, I’m dealing with the after effects of some shenanigans.

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture.

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[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote] thethirdruffian wrote:
I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Sure. The note says “t-mag rocks” but I fucked up the picture. It’s surprisingly hard to take a picture of a ring.

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[quote]RampantBadger wrote:
Forget that, show us pics of said feemale you deemed worthy of this rock??

[/quote]

Sure, attached.

Oh, wait, that’s the fucking bear that got into my dumpster and threw all my shit out for all my neighbors and friends to see. Easy to be confused on that point.

In seriousness, the nark who was kind enough to meddle in my affairs is still around, so I won’t be posting pictures of the girl.

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I’ve got this under control, but it required my life to get really fucked up.[/quote]

Soooo ehem… any chance you’re no longer mad at a certain someone? Maybe even feeing a bit of gratitude?[/quote]

Unlikely.

On the bright side, I have for sale a slightly used platinum engagement ring, lady’s size 7, 4.5 carret center stone (round but squarish – think it’s called “pillow”), VVS1, F color (slight blue in my eyes), with two 3/4 triangle shaped side stones, same quality.

Looks like this:

Serious enquiries only.[/quote]

Ah, Ruff, I’m sorry to hear that.

Hope you’re doing ok with the whole thing.[/quote]

x 2

Absolutely horrible that it played out the way that it did. Maybe it was inevitable, but a line was crossed.

Perhaps for the right reasons? It feels like a religious group was put ahead of an individual’s right and privacy, but who am I to judge?

Hope that you find happiness.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
Sure, attached.

[/quote]

Spider-bear, spider-bear, no idea why the picture is upside-down-bear.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote] thethirdruffian wrote:
I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Sure. The note says “t-mag rocks” but I fucked up the picture. It’s surprisingly hard to take a picture of a ring.
[/quote]

Thats a helluva rock. I’d probably get it caught on something and rip my finger off.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote] thethirdruffian wrote:
I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Sure. The note says “t-mag rocks” but I fucked up the picture. It’s surprisingly hard to take a picture of a ring.
[/quote]
Since the market for used engagement rings is probably low, what’s your plan for the ring?

Try to sell the ring and/or stone separately? Keep it as an investment? Keep it for some other chick and hope that no one rats you out?

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote] thethirdruffian wrote:
I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Sure. The note says “t-mag rocks” but I fucked up the picture. It’s surprisingly hard to take a picture of a ring.
[/quote]

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[quote]mud lark wrote:
Since the market for used engagement rings is probably low, what’s your plan for the ring?
Try to sell the ring and/or stone separately? Keep it as an investment? Keep it for some other chick and hope that no one rats you out?
[/quote]

Related to the “prepper” thread, it’s sitting in my bug-out bag with the two insurance appraisals (for about 2X the price I paid), a fair amount of cash (with evidence of where I withdrew said cash from a bank account – big deal in these parts), a Glock 22 with 3 mags, my passport, birth certificate, copy of professional enginering cert, DD214, underwear, shoes, and various other things one would need to start a new life somewhere if SHTF.

Figure I could pretty much start over with just the ring. It’s on my old dog tag chain, so I could hang it around my kneck and cross a border with limited questions.

(And no, I am not a fugative, just very leery of the way the country is going. Just smells like trouble and the kind of thing I might want to avoid.)

If I ever get engaged, I’d probably ask her to let me re-set it. I did get a heck of a deal from a jeweler that attended the shul my fiancee went to.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

[/quote]

I lived on the llano for a while. It is a harsh climate, the mountains are looking nice. They are an enjoyable respite from the oppressive heat.

Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol

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[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I’ve got this under control, but it required my life to get really fucked up.[/quote]

Soooo ehem… any chance you’re no longer mad at a certain someone? Maybe even feeing a bit of gratitude?[/quote]

I’m guessing the narc is a T-Nation poster?

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

Kind of. I drill oil wells for other people. Own a drilling company.

You drill through watever is below you. You use a combination of drilling fluid and pressure equipment to keep from having a blow out (assuming you are underbalanced — that is the pressure in the ground is greater than the weight of your column of fluid).

We kept losing all our fluid because, instead of rock, we keep hitting voids — aka “carsts” or “caverns” if you willl — but caverns with no opening to the upper world. All the fluid runs off into the cave and suddenly you have big bubble of gas (or whatever) come up and meet you on the surface — which we have blowing off in a flare about 40 feet high right now.

Bit exciting.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

[/quote]

I lived on the llano for a while. It is a harsh climate, the mountains are looking nice. They are an enjoyable respite from the oppressive heat.

Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

They must have been chicks that popped out kids. Or dated guys with bigger dicks.

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[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

[/quote]

I lived on the llano for a while. It is a harsh climate, the mountains are looking nice. They are an enjoyable respite from the oppressive heat.

Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

They must have been chicks that popped out kids. Or dated guys with bigger dicks.[/quote]

LOL, are you a little buthurt over my comments on women with children?

Could be, but it’s a pretty small segment of the population that is larger than me. Considering I fill out trojan magnums. There is always XXL crowd.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

[/quote]

I lived on the llano for a while. It is a harsh climate, the mountains are looking nice. They are an enjoyable respite from the oppressive heat.

Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

They must have been chicks that popped out kids. Or dated guys with bigger dicks.[/quote]

LOL, are you a little buthurt over my comments on women with children?

Could be, but it’s a pretty small segment of the population that is larger than me. Considering I fill out trojan magnums. There is always XXL crowd.[/quote]

pics or gtfo

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

Kind of. I drill oil wells for other people. Own a drilling company.

You drill through watever is below you. You use a combination of drilling fluid and pressure equipment to keep from having a blow out (assuming you are underbalanced — that is the pressure in the ground is greater than the weight of your column of fluid).

We kept losing all our fluid because, instead of rock, we keep hitting voids — aka “carsts” or “caverns” if you willl — but caverns with no opening to the upper world. All the fluid runs off into the cave and suddenly you have big bubble of gas (or whatever) come up and meet you on the surface — which we have blowing off in a flare about 40 feet high right now.

Bit exciting.
[/quote]

sounds like it.

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[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

Has it been hotter than a 3 balled tomcat out there? The sun in west texas/eastern new mexico area is fierce. I miss some aspects of the area, the solitude, lack of speed limits, people, and the ranching culture. [/quote]

It’s in the 50s and even 40s at night up in the mountains with a high in the mid-70s. Raining in the afternoon.

Down the mountain, it’s 99-105, dry, dusty, and just miserable.

I’ve been sitting on a well in the middle of no where waiting on pipe, a new BOP and everything you need to drill WAY underbalanced. So I’ve had a lot of time to mess around on the internet, in other words. I am thinking about getting an A/C trailer with a squat rack and a bench just for this kind of event.

The company man has pissed off my drilling supervisor so bad I had to come intervene because he didn’t want to wait on the needed equipment (or pay for it), but I am not going to kill my crew or lose my rig, so he can go fuck himself.

We’re drilling in a carsted area (think giant underground caves) and we’ve lost circulation and our entire column of fluid TWICE. Pretty sure we’ve drilled through a big fucking cavern, akin to Carlsbad or something. Kind of creepy, actually. The logs show “infinite” in all directions for the hole size, so it’s probably a couple miles wide. The kind of thing that swallows drilling rigs.

On a lighter note, a view from the other side of the mountain, where I took the gonodola up and rode a mountain bike down. That view is why I live where I live.

[/quote]

I lived on the llano for a while. It is a harsh climate, the mountains are looking nice. They are an enjoyable respite from the oppressive heat.

Laying pipe in a giant cavern you say? I’ve been in a few of those don’t remember much due to the booze. Sometimes I don’t understand how such a pretty package can have such terrible plumbing…lol
[/quote]

They must have been chicks that popped out kids. Or dated guys with bigger dicks.[/quote]

LOL, are you a little buthurt over my comments on women with children?

Could be, but it’s a pretty small segment of the population that is larger than me. Considering I fill out trojan magnums. There is always XXL crowd.[/quote]

pics or gtfo[/quote]

Maybe in the days when T-Nation was all about fucking and getting swole. They’re a little emo these days.